AI Infrastructure Market Research Report 2026: Opportunities in Advancements in Specialized Hardware Like GPUs, TPUs, and ASICs for Enhanced Deep Learning Performance

Growing demand for generative AI and edge AI applications, driven by efficient, low-power AI accelerators, presents significant potential across industries, notably in safety-critical systems and ...
MUO on MSN

You should stop using Excel's import wizard and use this instead

IMPORTCSV can do the same job faster.
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
U.S. News & World Report

Microsoft Exploring Using Advanced Power Lines to Make Data Centers More Energy-Efficient

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft is exploring using superconducting ‌power lines in its data centers, ‌which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server warehouses by making them ...
Geeky Gadgets

Power Query Isn’t Required: New Excel Functions Handle Straightforward Sources Cleanly

Have you ever felt like importing data into Excel is more complicated than it needs to be? Below My Online Training Hub walks through how Microsoft’s latest Excel functions, `IMPORTCSV` and ...
WYFF

Major power provider asking customers to reduce energy use

SO WE CAN GET YOU LISTED. WELL, DUKE ENERGY SAYS EXTREMELY COLD TEMPERATURES 10 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL ARE CAUSING VERY HIGH ENERGY DEMANDS ACROSS OUR AREAS. WELL, THEY’RE ASKING ALL OF ITS ...
CNN

Big tech is increasingly promising to pay for spiking power costs. But there’s not much to enforce it

As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data centers are increasingly offering to pay for more of the energy they consume, so everyday ...
Hosted on MSN

Microsoft introduces new IMPORTTEXT, IMPORTCSV functions in Excel

WASHINGOTN, 18th January, 2026 (WAM) -- Microsoft has added two new import functions — IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV — to Excel, aimed at simplifying the process of importing data from text and CSV files ...
Cleveland.com

Ohio bet big on data centers; now it needs the power

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The race to power artificial intelligence is on, and tech giants like Google, Meta and Microsoft are placing multibillion-dollar bets on nuclear energy. Ohio may be ground zero. The ...
Windows Report

Excel Gets New Import Functions for Faster Data Loads

Microsoft is making it easier to bring data into Excel, especially for users who just want quick results without opening Power Query. In a new update for Excel on Windows, Microsoft has introduced ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Lots of Electricity. This Bill Would Let Them Go Off the Grid.

Tech companies are building data centers as quickly as possible to run AI. These facilities are controviersial because they use copious amounts of electricity and might tax an electrical grid that in ...